All that glistens isn’t necessarily good During a recent vacation, I re-read Neil Postman’s classic of media criticism, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. I found it remarkably relevant on multiple fronts—especially with regard to a challenge we all grapple with daily: the deluge of disconnected, decontextualized information. I …
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Who Needs this Learning Stuff?
Dear Daughters, As you went back to school this week, one of you posed the question kids have been asking since the dawn of educational time: "when am I ever going to use this stuff?" You had in mind the contents of your lessons: the facts of history and the functions of algebra. But when …
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